Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 17 days agoThere are no psychopaths, but the idea persists.aeon.coexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down16cross-posted to: longreads@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkThere are no psychopaths, but the idea persists.aeon.coQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 17 days agomessage-square11linkfedilinkcross-posted to: longreads@sh.itjust.works
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·17 days agoPyschopaty never existed as a diagnostic. It’s akin to a doctor diagnosing you with “sick”. It is nonspecific, arbitrary and useless to inform treatment or prognosis. It was used as a descriptor by very early psychiatry, but it was never a distinct diagnosis.
Pyschopaty never existed as a diagnostic.
It’s akin to a doctor diagnosing you with “sick”. It is nonspecific, arbitrary and useless to inform treatment or prognosis. It was used as a descriptor by very early psychiatry, but it was never a distinct diagnosis.